Drawing Quotes · Page 79

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.

— Richard McGuire

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.

— Brian Blessed

I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.

— Cornelia Parker

I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an…

— Louise Bourgeois

David Whitmer wrote: ' Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing…

— Russell M. Nelson

No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of…

— John Newman

Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has…

— Charles Babbage

Everything starts from a dot.

— Wassily Kandinsky

When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find…

— Cennino Cennini

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you…

— Clyde Tombaugh

You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of…

— Gore Vidal

Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with…

— Itzhak Perlman

I took mechanical drawing, geometry and typing at high school, the latter because that is what they did with smart girls in…

— Frances Arnold

That's the type of thing you need to keep in mind when drawing comics. The storytelling. Consider the action and the space…

— Declan Shalvey

Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture…

— John French Sloan

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

— Norman McLaren

I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.…

— Adam Savage

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that…

— Desmond Tutu

Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade…

— Plutarch

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art…

— Chadwick Boseman

There's something refreshing about going into filming and not brushing your hair, letting your toenails chip, drawing darker circles under your eyes.

— Jodie Comer

I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights…

— Don Hertzfeldt

My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.

— Jeff Bridges

I could not but smile to think in what out-of-the-way corners genius produces her bantlings! And the Muses, those capricious dames, who,…

— Washington Irving

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

— Paul Laseau